Poem in Progress completed

The poem posted a few days ago is finished and is posted at www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com

Readings

Andrew Taylor is reading at the following venues:
Linghams Booksellers, 248 Telegraph Road, Heswall, Wirral, Thursday 7th April 7.30pm £3.00
Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, Liverpool, Sunday 10th April 2.30-4.00pm FREE

A Poem In Progress

After reading other interesting blogs, I thought it might be fun to post a poem in progress on my blog. Of course, this work-in-progress is (c) copyright.

It starts in Melling
runs via Liverpool
Amsterdam
New York
Barcelona
Paris
San Francisco
does it end here?


Knowsley


Lemsip Max can of Screen-Clene 32 Mandanol branded Paracetemol copy of Mercy magazine Issue 24 March 2005 Bill Viola Observance Exhibition Guide National Museums Liverpool Apple iPod 20GB Various Royal Mail receipts Various photographs Advent 6000 laptop computer Toshiba HDD & DVD Video Recorder RD- XS30 Logitech Wireless Mouse Scan View TFT Broadcast Monitor Copy of Fire # 24 Maxtor One Touch external Hard Drive Nokia 6610i mobile telephone Parker ballpoint pen Lett's 2005 A5 Diary Free Compact Disc from The Guardian Newspaper including music from British Sea Power Bloc Party and Mercury Rev an Anchor Steam Beer bottle top Explorer 4200 DVB set-top box Staedler Mars 777 0.5 pencil a Penguin Francoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse mug

Other

Photograph of Liverpool Cathedral by Tom Cox a 2005 Cats Calendar by Andy Warhol Liverpool Skyline Painting by John Jennings copy of the Bran Van 3000 logo various compact discs including UNKLE 'Psyence Fiction' Mogwai 'Happy Songs For Happy People' Ryan Adams 'Love Is Hell' Parts One and Two a BBC Royalty Payment Cheque un-cashed framed with a photograph by Karl Gielinck 'Billy' bookcases an uncharged Psion Revo Adrian Henri's 'Collected Poems' BT telephone upside down hotel room newspaper cutting a porcelain dog a copper windmill an angle-poise lamp Body Shop Hemp cream last few copies of 'Poetry and Skin Cream' boxed stacked printer paper rolled up British Sea Power tour poster used aeroplane tickets London A-Z bought at King's Cross station Parisian map


deerstalker driven walk
map upside
down canals lead
to docks

breakfast first thing
coffee and eggs
staying above San Remo
unaware


caged birds after Le
Tourist Nou Camp
spectacular falafal
and sunlit squares

neighbourhood bar
candlelit winter
night cryptic messages
on newspaper front-page

artists chess players
cab drivers
seamen
propelled by Anchor and Sierra



Farrell to Vernon St
measured electric glide
city centre morning bustle
landmarks remain

Vernon St to Jordan St
via St James' Mount
Monday coolness heated
refectory fodder


A solitary daffodil stands on a motorway verge in recognition of the first day of spring

Catharine Street front room painted dream spiral lunchtime after office curry phone-calls from Laura back bedroom down into the kitchen football in the corridor

Moving days boxed memories poetry an odd bedfellow to New Deal galleries set in derelict warehouses Wolstenholme Square anarchist artists squatter's rights

Poetry in members clubs how about crypt of The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King? Art galleries on December nights steamed up windows and Off Licences

Buddleia Warehouse roof shots envisaging a penthouse view to the Cathedral cellar visiting arch low-light hard hat a licence to roam explore streets become familiar

Fox Street a friary meeting place hill walking to the tower fence climbing city a map below in the haze of daybreak

Consolation red arms gathering a soul bereft anticipation of survival journeys along coastal tracks marshland birds stagnant leaded public art leading to Oriel Mostyn

Snowdon Buffet Bar Bangor Station meeting place after trekking armed with poetry and skin cream study centre first editions and Thomas's typewriter letters and notes

Amnesiac Red Stripe beer a desk-top computer floppy discs poetry carried in pockets transposed through Revo paper and memory

A vase of daffodils on a bedside table in recognition of a birthday


Woking a different air lunch-time foot court madness newspaper too large for tables hotels a writing machine entertainment system photographs postcards home reminders

Day war broke out watching Heathrow jets spring flowers baskets swinging loosely in a warmed breeze news updates satellites free newspapers in reception feeling far from

Nature and integration wood where signal dies foxes run in straight lines petrol station odd giver of life

Other blogs of interest

http://www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com/
http://www.iandavidson.blogspot.com/

Untitled Autumn Collection

A new collection is being assembled, to be published by Paula Brown Publishing. This collection will gather poetry from the MA years at Edge Hill College, the LADT Poems (while poet-in-residence at Liverpool Architecture and Design Trust) and the poems written since.
Running alongside this, I am editing the poems for possible inclusion in my PhD thesis.

Cathedral Poems

Cathedral Poems has gone to second proof. Hopefully the problems with the first proof will be overcome this time. More news soon.

The People's Poet

Andrew Taylor won the coveted 'People's Poet of 2004' in Liverpool on Saturday. This was voted for by members of the People's Poet community and will result in a book by Andrew Taylor.

www.thepeoplespoet.com

erbacce # 2

The second issue of erbacce is out now. This anonymous edition is available in Linghams Booksellers in West Kirby and News From Nowhere in Bold Street Liverpool.
Please support this venture.
www.erbacce.com

Andrew Taylor Poetry

Poetry & Skin Cream
A limited chapbook of poems written in the past year, has been published by erbacce press. It has been distributed to friends of the press.

Andrew Taylor Poetry

Andrew Taylor Poetry
Cathedral Poems
Cathedral Poems is back on track. Paula Brown, of Paula Brown Publishing has informed me that Cathedral Poems is at the proof stage, after the earlier production difficulties. It will be published in early 2005.

Andrew Taylor Poetry

Andrew Taylor Poetry
Cathedral Poems
The publication of Cathedral Poems has been delayed due to production difficulties. Further news when I have it.

A great blog!

Do visit Ian Jackson's fantastic Liverpool Biennial 2004 blog, the next best thing to being there!
http://biennial2004.blogspot.com/

Visit these great sites for further information about the Biennial.
www.afoundation.com
www.biennial.com

Poetry Readings/ Cathedral Poems

Andrew Taylor is appearing at a number of events in the run-up to the launch of his forthcoming book, Cathedral Poems.
He appears reading from the book at:
Hope University College, Childwall Campus, Liverpool, Thursday 7th October
Edge Hill College, Ormskirk, Thursday 21st October
Edge Hill College, Ormskirk, Thursday 28th October (with Allen Fisher, Robert Sheppard and Cliff Yates

Cathedral Poems is due to be published by Paula Brown Publishing on November 1st.
More details to follow.

erbacce #1

erbacce #1 is out. Visit www.erbacce.com for further details. Subcriptions most welcome.

Reading at the Hornby Rooms, Central Library Liverpool

Last night was the second in the series of readings organised by Neon Highway at Central Library. It took place in the magnificent surroundings of the Hornby Rooms, featuring the poets: Bill Griffiths, Robert Sheppard, Andrew Taylor, Angela Keaton, Scott Thurston, Cliff Yates, Eleanor Rees, Bruno D'Arcy, Alice Lenkiewicz and Adam Fish.
Poems read by Andrew Taylor:
Dee Side
Ready For Deva
Out of Harm's Way
Cat I
Cathedral VII

Caught In The Net

Jim Bennett has emailed to say that two of my poems, The Flight Was A Little Turbulent and Untitled have been selected for the online journal/ezine, Caught In The Net.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9952/CITN/caughtin.htm

erbacce

erbacce issue one is currently at the printers. Issue two will be forthcoming in November.

Neon Highway Poetry Event in Liverpool

There is a reading, promoted by Neon Highway magazine at Liverpool's Central library in William Brown Street on Thursday 19th August. The featured poet is Bill Griffiths. Other poets reading include: Andrew Taylor, Robert Sheppard, Scott Thurston and Angela Keaton. Further information at www.neonhighway.co.uk

Welcome

This blog is to form the basis for discussion of the Liverpool poet, Andrew Taylor and the projects he is currently involved with. Further information is available at the following:
www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com
www.erbacce.com
www.fotolog.net/taylorfallows

Thank you.